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The plan for this morning (Sunday, December 19, 2021) is to livestream both services.
The 8:15 service will be here: https://vimeo.com/event/1266906
The 10:30 service will be here: https://vimeo.com/event/1266906
After yesterday’s and last night’s winds, I wanted to check and make sure that everyone is ok. The church and the parsonage survived the night with only a few lost limbs. Would you mind letting me know how you’re doing? I would especially like to see if you’re having difficulties. I’m at john@revcollins.com and 620-252-9622.
Please pray for those who facing the task of cleaning up and rebuilding and those who are still without power.
The following is from a series of daily devotions from the writings of Frederick Buechner.
“LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR as yourself is part of the great commandment. The other way to say it is, ‘Love yourself as your neighbor.’ Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, strengthen yourself. Ministers in particular, people in the caring professions in general, are famous for neglecting themselves with the result that they are apt to become in their own way as helpless and crippled as the people they are trying to care for and thus no longer selves who can be of much use to anybody. If your daughter is struggling for life in a raging torrent, you do not save her by jumping into the torrent with her, which leads only to your both drowning together. Instead you keep your feet on the dry bank—you maintain as best you can your own inner peace, the best and strongest of who you are—and from that solid ground reach out a rescuing hand. “Mind your own business” means butt out of other people’s lives because in the long run they must live their lives for themselves, but it also means pay mind to your own life, your own health and wholeness, both for your own sake and ultimately for the sake of those you love too. Take care of yourself so you can take care of them. A bleeding heart is of no help to anybody if it bleeds to death.” — Frederick Buechner [1]
[1] Frederick Buechner, “Take Care of Yourself,” Frederick Buechner, accessed December 9, 2021, https://bit.ly/3202UPd.
We’ll hold our sixth Wednesday Night Bible Study at 5:15 tomorrow (December 15, 2021). It’s the final part of a six-part series on Exodus 34:6-7 that looks at the Character of God. Tonight we’ll be talking about God’s faithfulness.
This Wednesday’s video: https://bit.ly/3DQHi4J
The entire series can be found here: https://bit.ly/3q3QZth
This is the service that contained the Children and Youth Christmas Pageant.
If you want to follow along with bulletin you can follow this link.
If you’re having trouble streaming our worship videos, you may want to simply download the entire video to your device and then play it. You can do that by clicking on the link in the Vimeo logo above and then selecting download.
You can make a contribution online via tithe.ly. Other options can be found here.
Previous worship services can be found at abilenefirstumc.org/onlineworship/.
The plan for tomorrow (Sunday, December 12, 2021) is to livestream both services through the camera in the main aisle. This should mean better audio quality during the 8:15 service. It also means we can record and livestream the 10:30 service.
The 8:15 service will be here: https://vimeo.com/event/1266906
The 10:30 service will be here: https://vimeo.com/event/1266906
This coming Sunday (December 12, 2021), there won’t be a sermon because the children and youth will be presenting their 2021 Christmas Pageant. Hymns will include: “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly,” and “There’s a Song in the Air.”
We’ll hold our fifth Wednesday Night Bible Study at 5:15 tonight (December 8, 2021). It’s part of a six-part series on Exodus 34:6-7 that looks at the Character of God. Tonight we’ll be talking about God’s loyal love.
Today’s video: https://bit.ly/3deVkCh
The entire series can be found here: https://bit.ly/3q3QZth
If you want to follow along with bulletin you can follow this link.
If you’re having trouble streaming our worship videos, you may want to simply download the entire video to your device and then play it. You can do that by clicking on the link in the Vimeo logo above and then selecting download.
You can make a contribution online via tithe.ly. Other options can be found here.
Previous worship services can be found at abilenefirstumc.org/onlineworship/.
We’ll hold our fourth Wednesday Night Bible Study at 5:15 tonight (December 1, 2021). It’s part of a five-part series on Exodus 34:6-7 that looks at the Character of God. Tonight we’ll be talking about God’s slowness to anger.
Today’s video: https://bit.ly/3deVkCh
The entire series can be found here: https://bit.ly/3q3QZth
If you want to follow along with bulletin you can follow this link or the link in the menu above.
If you’re having trouble streaming our worship videos, you may want to simply download the entire video to your device and then play it. You can do that by clicking on the link in the Vimeo logo above and then selecting download.
You can make a contribution online via tithe.ly. Other options can be found here.
Previous worship services can be found at abilenefirstumc.org/onlineworship/.
From Behind the Pulpit 